Many Lives: Picture Frames in Context
Italian Tabernacle Frame, 1600s, tortoiseshell, bone or ivory and wood. Gift from a private collector (94/994).
@ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
@ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Many Lives: Picture Frames in Context
This conference has been rescheduled to September 25-26, 2024
This online conference on the history and conservation of frames is co-organized by the museum’s curatorial and conservation departments to promote inter- and multi-disciplinary dialogue. The AGO is home to an important collection of historic frames, and a project is currently underway at AGO to catalogue and conserve this collection to make the collection more accessible for study and use. In light of this project, the symposium aims to present current research that contextualizes frames in their many incarnations, including research on frame makers, framing traditions, frames’ afterlives, frame collections, pairings of frames to paintings, artists’ frames, the commercial history of framing, and related topics.